The sweet smell of competition is lingering in the air. That sweet smell which indicates that somewhere in the vicinity a company is working on actually improving a product so we can all benefit. This time around, it's Adobe, delivering the first Flash 10.2 beta. Prime feature? Complete hardware acceleration of the entire video pipeline - fully cross platform, cross-form factor. Cross-platform! There's a catch, though.

One thing has nothing to do with the other. And Flash still performs poorly on mobile devices such as the Sansung Tab. And that's got a two core CPU, and a small screen. How many phones are using 10.1? Three, four?

You think it's just Apple? While they're the ones who are willing to say things publicly, most other manufacturers aren't exactly hurrying to support it.